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A Santa Clara Democrat Makes holy
show" of His Party.

show" of His Party.
SAN JOSE, May 13th.-Some interesting
developments were made to-day before
Notary Witten in the Sulliyan-Felton Con-
gressional contest. James I. Reed testified
that at the last election he took part in the
voting of seventy or eighty men in the
Fourth Ward Others who took promi-
nent parts in voting these men were
Homich and G. w. Fischer. Il would
vote them.n said Reed, and take them to
Homich and Fischer and then they would
receive their pay In the forenoon the
price for each vote was 81, but in the after
noon the price went up to 50 vote, the
votes being for sale to the highest bidder
Men who sell their votes in this way can
not be said to have any politics, but we
voted them for the Democratic ticket"
The witness said that the money was
positively paid to seventy or eighty men
on election day, and in answer to ques-
ton as to his giving the testimony, he re-
piled that Gov. Bowden, Sullivan's attor-
ney, had informed him that he need not
testify without receiving five days notice
3. M. Bloomer testified that on election
day, as he was talking to man, the latter
was escorted to the polls by Salisbury and
shortly afterwards returned with 81. Sails
sack" and voted ten or twelve men. He
was working for Sullivan, Foote and Vim
ter. The witness voted for Sullivan.
The witness Reed is one of the oldest
residents Of the county, and strong Demo-
crat. He was very reluctant to testify, but
was forced to by the persistent questioning
of d. w. Burchard, attorney for FELTON,.
His evidence created a sensation in politi-
cal circles
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Litigation Between the Northern Paci
Railroad and the Government.

Litigation Between the Northern Pacific
Railroad and the Government.
WASHINGTON, May 13th.-TSpecial. THE
Assistant Attorney General for the Interior
Department has fixed June 18th for argu-
ment of the question that was brought
three years ago before the General Land
Office, as to whether the Northern Pacific
Road possess a grant of land from the head
of Puget Sound, Tacoma, down to Port
land, Or. The granting Act and charter
provided for the building of line to Puget
Sound, with branch down the Columbia
river to Portland. On both these lines
grants were given, but the road was built
from Puget Sound 10 Portland, also, and
the question has arisen whether any land
was granted the road for this line. The
distance is about $50 miles, and the land
involved aggregates about 2,500,000 acres
The overlapping of the grant along the
Cascade Branch, which is almost at right
angles with the Tacoma Branch, will take
perhaps 100000 acres out of the contro-
versy.
An official of the Northern Pacific who
was here last winter stated that the Cascade
branch and Tacoma division would be the
direct route to Portland when built, and
that it would be good many years before
the Columbia river branch would be con-
structed, and he doubted-even if it were
necessary to save the grant on that ine-if
1t would be built. AS consequence the
road is very desirous of saving the lands
along the line from Tacoma, through
Kalama to Portland, as they are very valu-
able, and will form a valuable property,
approaching as they do near the coast
Colonel George Gray will argue the cases
before the Secretary OF the Interior
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TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.

On Thursday last ice formed on the edges
of Carson river.
A Women's Relief Corps is being organ
lied at Modesto.
jeff. Davis was banqueted at Meridian
Miss, on Thursday.
Several incendiary fires were started in
Minneapolis on Thursday night.
Parnell will not be well enough to ap-
pear in Parliament for several days yet.
The Grand Chief of the Order of Rail
road Conductors is to receive a salary here
after.
AT q trial of the new melenite shells, at
Toulon, they failed TO pierce the ironclad
Belliqueves.
II DR.. McGlynn fails to present himself
in Rome within forty days he will be ex-
communicated.
The residence of Judge Walling, at Ne
vada City, was burglarized in broad day
light on Thursday.
A slight shock of earthquake occurred
at Summerville, and slight rumbling at
Charleston, S. c., on Thursday night.
There was great excitement in the coffee
market in New York on Thursday. The
activity was chiefly in Rio and Santos.
All the crew of the Ocean King, which
was burned and abandoned off the Oregon
coast on Sunday last, have arrived at Port
Townsend.
The loss caused by the burning of the
works of the Patterson On. J.) Iron Com
pany was from S250,0 to $500, 900. Insur-
ance, SO, 900.
James N. Taggart, who decamped with
his accounts as teller of the Union Trust
Company OF Philadelphia some 5000
short, is now in Paris.
NJ. D. Foley, of Eureka, and Bradley G
Russell, of Elko, New, have bought the
old English mill and ditch property, 20
gether with 700 acres of valuable land,
with all appurtenances thereto attached
and located in the immediate vicinity of
Reno. The consideration is $50 1000.
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Tho President ON Horsehnck.

The President, it is said, has yielded to
the advice OF his friends, and will take to
horsemanship as means of exercise Sec
retaries Bayard, Lamar, Whitney, and
Fairchild have described to him the ben
eft they derive from equestrianism, and he
has consented TO join them in some of their
gallops across the country. Secretary Bay
ard rides big bay horse with banged tail,
and every fair afternoon he joins Secretary
Fairchild or George Bancroft the ven-
erable historian, in n canter through
the soldiers home and the adjacent
roads. Secretary Whitney usually rides
with party of young people, and none of
them enjoys a spurt more than he does.
Secretary Lamar directs his horse to be
saddled and at his office every clear after
noon at 4:30 o'clock, from whence he ex-
plores the surrounding country until it is
time to return home for dinner
Mrs Cleveland is said to be delighted
with the idea of her husband taking to
horseback riding, and she promises to join
him in the sport. She has attended both
of the recent paper chases, and is am
bilious to join some of the gay riding
parties which are constantly being made.
up in society. A weil-known New
York instructor in horsemanship, who
is nov in this city, has formed large
class in fashionable circles, which has
given quite a boom to horseback riding.
The seal browns are not well adapted for
saddle-horses, and early additions to the
White House stables may be looked for
Baltimore Stn.
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KossUTH IN HIS OLD AGE-I suppose
that most of your readers would be sur
prised if told that the famous Hungarian
patriot, Louis Kossuth, is still alive. But
such is the case. He is living at Turin, at
the advanced age of s5. have recently
had two letters from Italy, giving news of
the venerable statesman ST. L. A Touhav,
our Consul at Turin, writes me that " the
General lives in retirement, and receives.
only enthusiastically, visits from some
few friends whom he especially desires to
meet. Indeed, owing to his well-advanced
age and consequent infrmities, he has re-
nounced all active pursuits of any sort
whatsoever l make the following ex-
tracts on the same subject from a Naples
! letter: +" He spent last winter with his son,
Major Kossuth, who resides in Naples, and
who is the magnate-the Tom Scott-of
the whole network of Italian railroads,
from the Corniche or Liguria. coast to the
occidental tip of the oot."-laris Letter to
the Inter Ocean.
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HOME GUARDS.
The Gates of England Closed Against
Atlanta,s Soldiery.

ATLANTA (Ga.) May 13th.-The Gate City
Guards cannot visit England as a military
organization, and not even as an annex to
the Wild West show. Yesterday Captain
Burke received letter from the Secretary
of the American Legation in London, in
which he said he was instructed by Minis
ter Phelps to say he regrets very much
his inability to obtain for you the desired
permission, for reasons already communi-
Gated to the Secretary of State Minister
Phelps was asked if England action was
final, and the answer was received that it
was. :" That ends it, said Captain Burke.
. If we cannot enter carrying our flag aloft
We will not enter. We would deserve to
be Missed on our return to New York if we
did" Burke is of the opinion that the re-
fusal of the British Government to allow
the Guards to enter England was due to
the recent demonstrations in this country
against the coercion bill. At one of these
meetings Burke was prominent figure.
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WHERE DO THE BIRDS GO?
Queer Story About the Swallows-Oriein
of the Barnacle Goose-A Question

queer Story About the Swaliows-Oriein
OF the Barnacle GOose-A Question.
The flight of storks has given trouble to
the Germans and the Chinese, while the
disappearance and the reappearance of the
swallows haye caused untold trouble every
where. Learned bodies, like the French
Academy and the Royal Society of London,
have gravely asserted that in the fall swal
lows plunge INTO the mud or mashes and
mlll-ponds, become torpid and hibernate
like frogs or snakes. l have seen list of
nearly 200 articles written all along from
the middle of the seventeenth century
down te 1871, for the purpose of proving
or dlsproying the Information of swallows
and other birds. And DIR. Coues saws he
can lay his hands upon papers of that
period which discuss the migration of
swallows to the moon. the falling OF the
little quadrupeds called Jennings in
showers from the clouds, and the origin of
brant geese from barnacles that grow on
trees.
Indeed, not year ago I was assured by
a gentleman of more than ordinary intel
ligence that this last is undoubtedly the
correct theory as to the origin of the bar
nacle goose. And it was not a decade ago
tnat read IN one of the leading newspa-
pers of this State an article of a curious
sudden appearance in the fall of the black
snow birds and their as sudden disappear
ance in spring, and the explanation i've
was that our common sparrows G. aH ?
color in fall, becoming snowbirds, hie !.
they remain until spring, when they 1t
on their other dress and become sparrows
again. And 1 find that among the common
people of the country there are many who
have this belief.
We have long known in a general way
that the birds 90 southwark to winter and
return to spend the summer in the north.
But just where in the south do they go =?
Why do they go there? By what routes
do they travel? At what rate of speed
Do they travel by night or day, or both?
What species migrate first, which last, and
why? How are they guided in their
course? What is the winter as well as the
summer habitat of each particular species,
when does it get there, and when does it
leave the one for the other? In what way
and to what extent are their movements
depended upon or influenced BY vegetable
and meteorological phenomena p Popular
Science HOnttiy
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CANADIAN BLUFFING.
SIR TCpPER'S THREAT OF BRIT
ISH RETALIATION.
IF the Non-IntercoGrse Act be
Pressed, England to Put a
Duty on American Grain.
IBY TELEGRAPH To THE REcoRD-usuoN.l

WASHINGTON, May 13th.-The speech ol
Sir Charles Upper in the Dominion Par
Lament last night, on introducing the bud
get, has attracted good deal of attention
here to-day in official circles. Upper
stated that if the United States put into
operation the non-intercourse Act Great
Britain would retaliate by putting a duty
on American grain, thus giving Canada a
big market, and which would in measure
compensate her for the loss of the Ameri-
can carrying trade.
Secretary Bayard was asked if he had
read Tupper's speech, and if he had any
comments TO make on it. He said he had
| only seen the comparatively brief synopsis
| telegraphed to the American papers. He
had not thoroughly studied it, and would
not like to criticise it in any way until he
had been able to read the speech. IN re-
gard to the speakers asserting that the bal
ance of trade for the last so years had been
largely in favor of the United States, Bay
ard said that Of course was true, but as to
whether the United States or Canada would
suffer most by commercial operation being
suspended, America was the bigger coun-
try of the two, and could probably stand it
better than the Dominion.
do you think there is anything in Tup-
per's threat of England putting duty on
American grain ?"
England" said the Secretary, repealed
her corn laws forty-odd years ago. She
won't grow enough TO feed her people, and
it is not likely she will do anything to
make the cost of living more expensive to
| her people, who find it hard enough to live
as it is, with the duties removed"
But might she not try to stimulate the
| India and Canadian grain markets at the
| expense of ours?"
| Both India and Canada produce i'm
mense quantities of grain for the English
market. 1t is natural to suppose that Eng
| land might stimulate the trade of her pos
sessions, especially as the Manitoba wheat
| crop is assuming greater proportions every
year, but this speculation is somewhat
fruitless at the present time"
Suppose England were to put this duty
on our grain, might it not cause further
reprisals on our part"
My mission is not TO try and see how
uncomfortable ! can make people. 1t is
rather the other way" said the Secretary
| Bayard concluded by saying that it would
| be time enough to consider all these ques.
tions when they became actualities. Re.
garding the question in commercial
sense, he did not think non-intercourse
would pay US. The report of the Bureau
of Statistics shows that since 1878 the bal.
ance of trade in favor of the United States
has ranged from over 100000 in 1882 tc
over $4,000 600 in 1888. The total value
of fish imported from the British Ameri
can possessions in 1886 was 81, ,61O, anC
the dutiable value in the same year 81 ,1O5,
| 3S4
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MRS. BEECHER,S LETTERS.
How She Spared Her Husband Pain b,
Keeping Tales of Woe from Him,

Keeping Tales of Woe from Him.
S. L. Adams, of this city, is in possession
of letters written by Mrs. Henry Ward
Beecher in 1881 and 1882, in which she
speaks of the trying times growing out of
the Beecher-Tilton scandal, their own poy-
erty and Mr.. Beecher's arduous duties.
These letters prove her sublime selfabne-
CATION.
Under date of February 8, 1881, Mrs
Beecher wrote You should see the i'm
mense pile of unopened letters before me,
the punishment of two days absence from
the city. Nearly nine-tenths are addressed
to Mr.. Beecher, but he never reads letters
unless there is some matter that he alone
can decide, which is not often the case.
Thousands come to us that he never sees,
consequently they do not trouble his brain
or, what would be more serious, grieve
his tender heart. Ali correspondence is
left to me, one of the cheerfullv-accepted
but onerous duties resulting from being the
wife of such man."
On June I, 1882, she writes "Tbe pitt
less blackmail persecution to which my
husband was subjected a few years ago
turned cur heads white before our time
and nearly broke my heart at last. That
trial cost us $160,000. We were not worth
S60,O00 The impression seems to be gen.
was, but when comfortably well off his
oyerflowing generosity enabled him to lay
by nothing of any account. Sometimes
now if l did not discreetly purloin the
contents of his too liberal pockets the
household expenses would remain unpaid.
He cannot help returning moneyless be-
cause OF the tales of woe that seem to lie
in wait for him upon the street. Since
that terrible trial he has worked inces-
sanity, to the detriment of his health
preaching, lecturing, writing, hoping to
lift the heavy mortgage from our home
here Columbia Heights, Brooklyn), but it
had to be sold in the spring"
On November Z, 1882, Mrs Beecber al
ludes to the " two or three bushels of let
ters that have accumulated during Mr.
Beecher's vacation, TO say nothing of all
that followed US into the country" She
speaks of the innumerable petitions for
help and exclaims 81 Oh, that the whole
world could know that we are poor, poor,
poor in everything but the ability to grieve
for woes we have not the power to aid.
From the letters have classed as genuine
| ind that the sums 80 pitifully pleaded
for aggregate over 10000
Referring to this subject in another letter
she says: What can | do but half break
my heart over sorrows that my dear hus-
band could not alleviate were they known
to him? 1t would make him i'll to read the
letters. This suffering can spare him."
In her self-abnegation she makes no
moan because this suffering is vicariously
Visited upon her." In letter written in
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THE OCEAN KING.
Particulars of the Loss of the Largest
American Ship.

Particulars of the Loss of the Largest
American Ship.
PoRr TOWNSEND, May 13th.-The follow
ing particulars of the loss of the four
masted ship Ocean King, Captain Sawyer,
which left NanMmo April 22d coal laden
for San Pedro, and was abandoned, are re-
ceived to-day: On Saturday, May 9TH, dur
ing very heavy gales her sails were blown
away and the vessel started leak. The
donkey engine could not work, as the
pump-shaft was broken. The crew had TO
desert the forecastle and go aft. After this
the vessel caught fire, it is supposed from
the galley stove Every attempt was made
TO ouench the flames, but without sue
cess. One boat was lowered from the
ship but was stove by heavy
sea. At 5 A. NJ. on Sunday the fishing
schooner Angel Dolly, Captain Tubbs, hail
ing from San Francisco, hove in sight, re-
naming by the ship until about noon,
when they sent boat and took the crew
off the ship. The twenty-five men on the
ship saved only part of their clothes. of
Cape Flattery the schooner was sighted by
a launch from the United States Coast Sur
yey steamer c. 2. Patterson, and the crew
of the Ocean King was taken off and
brought 10 this port.
The Ocean King was owned in Boston
and was the largest American ship atioat.
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The House of Commons Wastes More
Time in Heated Debate.

Ihe House OF Commons Wastes More
Time in Heated Debate.
LONDON, May 13th-In the House of
Commons to-day Healy, in order to meet
the case of Ulster, moved an amendment
to the crimes bill that inquiry must be di-
rected into a case of crime, whether in q
proclaimed district or not, upon sworn in
formation by the injured party.
Holmes, Acknowledgement for Ireland
repudiated the amendment, as unneces-
sary.
Healy challenged Holmes to name sim
gle instance of an Orangeman having been
hanged for the murder of Catholic.
Holmes said he was glad of the oppor-
tunity afforded him TO explain his reason
for saving that the blood OF Giffen would
be on the head of Earl Spencer. Earl
Spencer knew that rival Nationalist and
Orange meetings were announce to be held
in Dromore on the same day, and that they
ought to be prohibited. Therefore he
(Holmes) maintained the expression justi-
fable.
Sir William Harcourt reproached Holmes
with reiterahng an expression intended to
intiame party passion.
Balfour said the last speaker need not
fear the example of Holmes would have
any injurious effect upon gentlemen below
the gangway, and asked whether the oppo-
sition would support an amendment ex-
tending to Unprecedented districts the opera
ton of the clause which they We're now
opposing word by word.
Gladstone said he marveled at Balfour
wishing peaceful close of the discussion
after doing everything he could TO exaspe-
rate the opposition. He heard Holmes
speech with the greatest regret. 1t ap-
peared to him that Holmes said one thing
in Parliament and another thing in Ire
land.
The Chairman (interrupting)-" Order
order The discussion is travelling wide OF
the subject. l think the matter should
| drop
Gladstone resumed his seat, after express
ing regret that Balfour had chosen to pro-
long the discussion.
The amendment was withdrawn.
Mr.. Lockward (LiberaD moved an
amendment with the object of limiting the
operation of the clause to the most serious
offenses.
Attorney-General Webster said the Gov
| ernment was unable to accept the amend
| ment. If any one offense was worse than
| another against which the clause was di-
rected, it was conspiracy to boycott.
T. 2. O'Connor said that the Government
had at last let the cat out of the bag, in ad-
mitting that the most stringent powers had
for their object the suppression of boy
cotting.
The amendment was rejected by vote
of 257 to 10.
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FATE OF A Cow THAT ATE SoAP.-Men-
ton was made in this paper short time
since about COW in Montgomery county
eating several bars of soap, and also the
fact that the COW died and that the owner
of the animal had sued for damages. The
Rev. E. W. Lawbon, of New Richmond,
purchased some soap and placed it in a
sleigh owned by George Delhi, who was to
deliver the soap at the ministers house
Afterwards Delhi met man named How
ard Dewey; they exchanged horses and
Delhi went home in Dewy's buggy, while
Dewey went to see a girl at the residence
of George SAKE, with the soap under the
seat, not knowing it was in the sleigh
The cow of SAKE ate the soap and died of
course. An examination was held and
soap was found in the cows stomach. Mr.
SAKE has sued all three of the above per-
SONS, so as TO be sure of getting damages
from somebody. The cow belonged to
SAKE, the soap to Lawbon. the sleigh con-
tanning the soap to Delhi, the horse hitched
to the sleigh to Dewey, aud Dewey was the
person who vent to see the girl of the man
whose COW ste the soap. = Indianapolis
Journal.
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RANCH AND RANGE.
Tie Fast Winter Better than the Average
for Cattlemeu

iOF SattiemeD.
BosToN, May 13th.-The Commercial BuI
letin published to-day special report OF
the range, ranch and cattle industry The
reports are furnished by special correspond,
ents from thirteen States aud Territories
covering the whole field. The conclusion
arrived at indicates that the early reports
of winter losses have been considerably ex.
aggerated. The only Territory where cat
tlemen suffered severe losses was in Mon
tana, where the mortality proves to have
been from Is to - per cent. on an
average. The losses in Colorado. West
ern Kansas and Northern Kansas were
very light the past winter, running
under five per cent. of the average
Parts of Idaho and Wyoming suffered
quite severely, particularly in the north
western parts, but the average loses in the
Territories were not excessive. Utah, New
Mexico and Arizona were particularly for
tunate. New Mexico correspondents write
that the loss does not exceed 3 per cent. in
either of the Territories named Texas
reports some suffering because of drought,
but the winter was much more favorable
to stockmen than that of 1885 &C.
On the whole, the conclusion is arrived
at that the past winter was favorable one
to the cattle raising interests of the West,
and that the hide and leather markets will
not feel the effect noticeably of what fallen
hides will come upon the market.
From every section come reports of en-
croachments of immigrants upon the graz
ing territory, and particularly from Ne
braska, Kansas and Colorado, where cattle
men are being pushed steadily westward.
1t is the opinion of some of the CORE
spondents that the cattle-raising industry
has reached its hight in several States.
The interstate commerce law works to the
disadvantage of most sections, but reports
vary on this point Without an exception
as to single State or Territory, the spring
season has opened With an abundance of
rain, and fine outlook for grass. Cattle
raisers in Montana feel much encouraged
over the outlook, and feel that a favorable
spring will go far to recuperate their losses
and prevent further mortality among weak
cattle